About 2 or 3 years ago, I was on a Delta shuttle flight from Ft Lauderdale to NY, sitting in the exit row and someone my size (I'm 6'2" 250lbs) sat next to me. He was dressed nice and had a very large ring on, the person sitting between us asked him about the ring, it was a super bowl ring from '69. I ended up talking to John Schmidt, it was a blast. I have been a fan since 1970 and was able to talk to the person who snapped the ball to my childhood idle. We talked about all the old time Jets (Namath, Boozer, Hill, Maynard etc) The thing that was the most amazing is that all the lineman in his era were smaller then I am. Today 6'6" 320 is nothing, back then he was considered a normal sized lineman. Anyway anyone else ever meet a Jet player?
Schmidt came into one of my classes at hofstra as a guest. I believe he has a large insurance company now. Very nice guy. I don't think I've met any of the current Jets, I was at a chairty dinner in an elevator with Sean Ellis and Kareen Mckenzie. Two large men.
i met marvin jones in an atlanta airport i met pennington at a massapequa mustangs football dinner Im friends with a guy who played on the 69 jets I went to a bbq with my family and bernie parmaleys family then we went on his boat and i asked him the wost question which was "hey did u ever meet curtis martin?" I met Richie anderson becaused he lived in the same house as bernie after he left I met rick lyle at training camp one year and he was a dick and i met john abraham at the grand lux cafe
A good friend of mine and I frequent a place and were friendly with the bartender. Unfortunately, he got into a motorcycle accident in 2003 and passed away. Turns out his son was Chad Pennington's trainer, or one of them, to recoup from the hand injury. We went to the funeral, and who was there? Chad talking to the son. We knew the son, so we went up and said hello, and he introduced us. We spoke to him for about 20-25 minutes, along with some others, after the funeral.
Not counting the dozens of training camp autographs, I've met Johnny Johnson at a Newsday dinner back when I was like 8, I met Namath, Sauer, and Maynard at an autograph show, met Boomer on an LIRR train and talked to him about the jets for about 20 mins, met Matt Snell in a hotel lobby, met Quinn Early at my high school, where he graduated from and came back to visit
No it was at Bungalow 8 which is a club in the city. i had a VIP pass and i guess he had one too because i met him in the VIP section. I was like "how is the 3-4 going?" and he replied "were learning" and then he was like "who is your favorite Linebacker in the Jets" ... i just said "ALL" cuz i didnt want to say VILMA right in front of his face and i didnt want to suck up to him either. This happened before teh season started btw.
When I lived in Arizona I drove a green ford escort station wagon so I had multiple windows to put Jet decals in the windows and I had a Jet license plate. One afternoon I drove to the local record store , as I was getting out of the car this guy drives by in a silver dodge viper with North Carolina plates that read NYJ 29. The guy was also staring at me as I walked towards the plaza. I go into the record store and and the guy also came into the record store. He walked over to me and asked me if I was a Jet fan, I told him I was and he introduced himself to me as Adrian Murrell. This was his 1st year with the AZ Cardinals , he was one of favorites when he was with the Jets and I had season tickets to the Cards as well so he was also my fav on the Cards. He was one of the nicest athletes I ever met. All around nice guy and I was really moved that he introduced himself to me. I also met Al Toon at Macy's in the Monmouth Mall when I was a kid, I just remember him being very tall. I went to go see the Jets/Rams a few years ago in Saint Louis and met Rick Lyle's parents at the Arch, does that count? I also know Matt Snell's cousin, he is a huge horse player here in Vegas.....
I met wayne chrebet in a circuit city around '99. He was kind of a prick. It's funny he looked so small out on the field but next to regular people he looked swole as hell.
marvin jones coached football at my school so he was walking around my school one day and i just went up to him and talk about the jets a lil.
yesss ive met lav coles where i work....and eric barton where i work as well... ive also ran into Vinny T numerous times because we live in the same general area..... ive also met jason fabini, and john abraham....and sowell train and i also met gastineau at training camp
I've met Mawae, Erik Coleman, Justin Miller, Jon McGraw, and Brandon Moore at Training camp. Erik Coleman seemed to be the nicest of the bunch, but unlike the others, McGraw was stopping for pictures. all of 2 people took one with him :lol:
I've met many Jet players. One who I knew well was John Hall out of Wisconsin, I even visited him in Washington with my kids. Hell of a nice guy... and no, he's not a stonehead.
